Payam Nahid, MD, MPH
Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

415-476-5494

Dr. Payam Nahid, the Haile T. Debas Distinguished Professor of Global Health, is the Executive Director of the UCSF Institute for Global Health Sciences.

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With over two decades of experience in global health, he specializes in clinical trials and translational research on TB and HIV/TB co-infection. Dr. Nahid has led international programs funded by NIH, CDC, USAID, and BMGF to develop new TB diagnostics and treatments. In 2009, he co-founded the Vietnam National TB Programme-UCSF Research Collaboration Unit to promote equitable international research activities. As the Senior Research Advisor for the USAID-funded Supporting, Mobilizing and Accelerating Research for Tuberculosis Elimination (SMART4TB), Dr. Nahid directs the consortium's research strategies. Dr. Nahid serves as the Director of the UCSF Center for Tuberculosis and co-leads the NIAID-funded UCSF-UC Berkeley TB Research Advancement Center (UC TRAC), which trains early-stage TB investigators. Dr. Nahid has led WHO Task Forces and international practice guidelines. He is an appointed member of the WHO Strategic and Technical Advisory Group on TB (STAG TB).

Education & Training

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  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training University of California, San Francisco 2022
  • M.P.H. Epidemiology San Diego State University 2004
  • Fellowship Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine University of California, San Francisco 2004
  • Residency Internal Medicine Scripps Clinic & Research Foundation 2001
  • M.D. School of Medicine University of California, Irvine 1997

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Grants and Projects

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Publications (144)

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Mycobacterium Infections, NontuberculousTuberculosis, Multidrug-ResistantLatent TuberculosisClinical Trials as TopicDirectly Observed TherapyIsoniazidTuberculosisTuberculosis, PulmonaryAntitubercular AgentsRifamycinsAntibiotics, AntitubercularSputumVehicle EmissionsRifampinMycobacterium tuberculosis

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